BALTIMORE—The Blue Jays’ charter plane seems like the only place the team can feel good about something these days.

At the ballpark, where the Jays now find themselves four games below .500, there appears to be no hitting, inconsistent starting pitching — and no joy.

Toronto’s woes continued here Friday night — for many of the same old reasons of late — in an 8-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles before 42,660 at Camden Yards.

Hitting? It’s been almost non-existent on this road trip. Toronto eked out some late inning offence in its lone win in three games in Cleveland, and managed some early fireworks — a pair of homers — Friday against the Orioles.

But Toronto’s offence — and in fact, the entire team — looks like it needs to disappear over the all-star break, then hit the reset button.

Most troubling is the performance from the top of the order: after going 4-for-34 in Cleveland, Jose Reyes, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion showed some signs of life against Orioles starter Chris Tillman, but it wasn’t enough.

Encarnacion struck for his 24th homer of the season, and Reyes collected three singles. But overall, the big three have not lived up to their billing ever since the club’s 11-game winning streak came to an end.

“Swinging at bad pitches and (fouling off) good ones, so my game plan was not working tonight,” said Bautista, who struck out in his first four plate appearances - the so-called Golden Sombrero.

“Other than today, I’ve hit the ball decent. I’ll be honest, at home I felt better … but it’s only four games into this road trip, we’ve got two more where I can contribute, so that’s what I’ve got to focus on.”

The Orioles, who lead the American League in homers, came up big: a two-run shot from Chris Davis — his MLB-leading 35th — and a pair of three-run homers from Adam Jones and JJ Hardy, reaffirmed that script, and sunk Jays starter Mark Buehrle, who had a 2.73 ERA over his nine previous starts.

Toronto is now 1-3 on this six-game road trip, and has no hope of reaching .500 by the all-star break next week. Based on what the club has shown since the 11-game win streak last month, it’s getting hard to believe the Jays can muster the sound baseball and winning percentage needed to challenge for a wild-card spot.

In the meantime, the flight from Cleveland to Baltimore Sunday turned into a celebration for Steve Delabar’s triumphant, Twitter-driven selection to the all-star game.

“They made the announcement on the plane, I was all pumped up,” Delabar said. “I had no idea what the actual numbers on the vote were. I just knew I was leading the vote after each day.”

When the Jays’ charter landed in Baltimore, his phone lit up with congratulations from all corners of the baseball world.

“I had a ton of texts and it was like, thank you, thank you so much to everyone,” Delabar said.

“I finally got caught up with all the texts today (Friday). My dad, he kept texting, ‘Are you free, has it been a minute, you said a minute.’ … He was so pumped, (mom and dad) are gonna meet me up there (in New York).”

With a Twitter campaign spearheaded by the Jays, Delabar received more than enough fan votes to emerge as the winner among five players vying for the last available roster spot for the AL all-star team.

Delabar’s parents were just as excited: his father, Steve, designs testing range for Army tanks, and his mother, Debbe, is a stay at home mom.

In the clubhouse, the irrepressible Munenori Kawasaki pumped up his teammates to keep the Delabar vote campaign hot. Most notably, the team released a “Raise the Bar, Vote Delabar” T-shirt that went viral on Twitter.

“You still have a job to do but if it wasn’t for the fans voting … it was the promotion by the club (Jays), and everyone throwing up those tweets … and the T-shirts and Kawasaki with the campaign. We all started calling him the campaign manager,” Delabar said.

“If I could just put the word ‘fans’ on the back of my jersey, they’re the ones who put me there.”

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